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Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
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Pamela Walker Laird
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English
Published/Copyright:
2006
About this book
In retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Laird goes beyond personality, upbringing, and social skills to reveal the critical common key--access to circles that control and distribute opportunity and information. She contrasts how Americans have prospered--or not--with how we have talked about prospering.
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Laird offers an illuminating analysis of how exceptional achievers have combined individual talent with social assets…to rise in society.
-- Hardy Green Businessweek
-- Hardy Green Businessweek
[A] highly readable appraisal of the social dynamics that navigate some Americans towards opportunity while steering others away… Pamela Laird has written an important book about the social forces that have blocked individual endeavour.
-- Margaret Walsh Business History
-- Margaret Walsh Business History
Laird’s historical perspective yields fresh insights into the history of American business practices and offers an original perspective on the challenges made by feminism and civil rights in the last decades of the twentieth century.
-- Kathy Peiss Business History Review
-- Kathy Peiss Business History Review
Laird provides a comprehensive perspective and rich historical insight into the importance of social dynamics in achieving career success. She retells the success stories of famous Americans ranging from Horatio Alger, Benjamin Franklin, and Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates and beyond to make the point that none were simply ‘self-made men.’
-- T. Gutteridge Choice
-- T. Gutteridge Choice
This eye-opening book helps explains why so many individuals—and nearly all African Americans and women—were so long left out when they exhibited the same intelligence and ambition as those who ‘made it.’ In emphasizing the social forces that blocked pathways up, in addition to those which held people down, Laird presents an exciting new way to think about success.
-- Walter A. Friedman, author of Birth of a Salesman
-- Walter A. Friedman, author of Birth of a Salesman
A bold, ambitious, and important book. Laird shows that the key to understanding how people succeed is social capital—the networks, mentors, role models, manners, connections, and understanding of codes of behavior that enable some Americans but not others to advance.
-- Daniel Horowitz, author of The Anxieties of Affluence
-- Daniel Horowitz, author of The Anxieties of Affluence
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eBook published on:
July 1, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9780674039872
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457
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9780674039872
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